Michael Manville is Professor of Urban Planning at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. His research areas are transportation, land use, and housing, and the interrelationships between those. He has particular interests in road and parking pricing; the determinants of driving and transit use; and the influence of land use regulations on the supply and price of housing.

Dr. Manville’s research has been published in journals of planning, economics, urban studies, and sociology. He has received research funding from University Transportation Centers, from the John Randolph Haynes Foundation, and the TransitCenter, among others. He has consulted for developers, environmental groups, local governments, and the United Nations.

Dr. Manville has an MA and PhD in Urban Planning, both from UCLA Luskin. Prior to joining Luskin as a faculty member, he was Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University.

Selected Publications

Manville, Michael. 2024. Induced Travel Estimation Revisited.  Report to the Southern California Association of Governments.

Monkkonen, Paavo, Michael Manville and Michael Lens. 2024. Built out Cities? A new approach to Measuring Land Use Regulation. Journal of Housing Economics. 63.

Manville, Michael, Paavo Monkkonen, Nolan Gray and Shane Phillips. 2024. Does Discretion Delay Development? Journal of the American Planning Association. 89(3): 336-347.

Manville, Michael, Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens and Richard Green. 2022. Renter Nonpayment and Landlord Response: Evidence from COVID-19.  Housing Policy Debate. 33:6, 1333-13.

Manville, Michael, Gregory Pierce and Bryan Graveline. Guardrails on Priced Lanes: Protecting Equity While PromotingEfficiency. Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Manville, Michael, Brian Taylor, Evelyn Blumenberg, and Andrew Schouten. 2022. Vehicle Access and Falling TransitRidership: Evidence from Southern California. Transportation. 50, 303–329.

Manville, Michael and Miriam Pinski. 2021. The Causes and Consequences of Curb ParkingManagement. Transportation Research Part A. 152 (October): 295-307.

Manville, Michael.  2021. Liberals andHousing: A Study in Ambivalence. Housing Policy Debate. 33:4, 844-864.

Manville, Michael and Paavo Monkkonen. 2021. Unwanted Housing: Localism and the Politics of Development. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 44(2):685-700.

Gabbe, CJ, Michael Manville and Taner Osman. 2021. The Opportunity Cost of Parking Requirements. Journal of Transport and Land Use. 14(1):277-301

Manville, Michael. 2020. Roads, Pricesand Shortages: A Gasoline Parable. UCLA Institute of Transportation Studies Explanatory Essay. October 1.

Manville, Michael, Paavo Monkkonen, and Michael Lens. 2020. It’s Time to End Single Family Zoning. Journal of the American Planning Association. 86 (1); 106-112.

Manville, Michael. 2021. Value Capture Reconsidered. UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies. June 17.

King, David, Michael Smart and Michael Manville. 2019. The Poverty of the Carless: Toward Universal Auto Access. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 42(3):464-481.

Manville, Michael and Emily Goldman. 2017.  Would Congestion Pricing Harm the Poor? Do Free Roads Help the Poor? Journal of Planning Education and Research.

Manville, Michael and Taner Osman. 2017. Motivations for Growth Revolts: Discretion and Pretext. City and Community. 16(1):66-85.

Manville, Michael. 2017. Travel and the Built Environment: Time for Change. Journal of the American Planning Association. 83(1): 29-32.

Manville, Michael. 2017. Bundled Parking and Vehicle Ownership: Evidence from the American Housing Survey. Journal of Transport and Land Use. 10(1): 27–55